October 17, Bitcoin.com published a contradictory statement, which stated that it was Bitcoin Cash that should be called bitcoin. In response, leading industry experts, including the maker of lightcore, Charlie Lee (Charlie Lee), criticized such attempts. Bitcoin Cash was launched in early August from hard fork bitcoin, which supported several major mining pools, including ViaBTC and Bitmain. Since then, the support and demand for Bitcoin Cash has decreased significantly, which is noticeable in terms of the hash and market capitalization of the crypto currency.

According to analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, brokerage companies that offer products in the field of crypto currency can have a big impact on the global market. In the report of the bank entitled "Implementation of Crypto-Currency - what are they good for?", Analysts are considering the potential of Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP, as well as the main aspects of the market and open functioning network of detachment. It is noteworthy that the report touches on possible factors that could affect the future progress of the crypto-currency market, including financial products based on this technology.

The largest bank consortium in the US, , is launching a new platform for interbank payments, built on the basis of a blockchain. The Interbank Information Network (IIN) will be launched with the participation of two other banks - the Royal Bank of Canada and the Australian and New Zealand banking group and is built on Quorum, the corporate blockchain network JPMorgan based on the Etherium, which was first introduced last fall. It is expected that during the coming months other participating banks will join this initiative.

St. Julian’s will host the event for all those interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies in terms of business - Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Malta. (December 7, 2017). Its participants include entrepreneurs, investors, consultants and IT specialists working with blockchain and digital currencies. The event will be attended by representatives of the Government of Malta. At the beginning of the event, they will make a welcoming speech. Speakers of the conference are analysts of the cryptocurrency markets; financial and legal experts; blockchain developers; representatives of startups and large companies that use blockchain technology; cryptocurrency and venture investors.

Bitcoin and crypto-currency researcher Willy Woo, who is highly respected in the community, announced that the number of Bitcoin users is about doubled every 12 months. Using as one of the main indicators of the increase in the number of Bitcoin users of the Google Trends app, Wu formed an infographic showing the exponential growth rate of the bitcoin user base. You stressed that against the backdrop of a stable growth rate and periodic surges, which usually depend on the movement of the price of the crypto currency, in the long term the bitcoin network will continue to demonstrate a steady increase in the user base.

Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, "thanked" in his Twitter for the US government and financial institutions for the persecution of Wikileaks, which forced the organization to switch to bitcoin in 2010. In his publication Assange notes that the accumulation of Wikileaks in the crypto currency grew by more than 50 000%. On October 14, Julian Assange expressed his "deepest gratitude to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for forcing Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, AmEx, Moneybookers and other payment systems to organize the illegal banking blockade of Wikileaks in 2010." Assange said that the financial embargo "forced Wikileaks to invest in bitcoin, due to which the organization increased its investments by more than 50 000%."

Bitcoin is a "class of assets that are not subject to censorship," but it's also not quite money, analysts at Bernstein, based in New York, say. According to Business Insider, in a message that was sent to the company's customers on Wednesday, Bernstein analysts conducted a study of this issue, ultimately suggesting that although bitcoin possesses some characteristics of money, it does not comply with the definition that is currently applied to money. Fee money is still the main form of financial regulation - governments still collect taxes in fiat money, and salaries are still paid in fiat money, "the report explains." Thus, today bitcoin emerged only as a class of assets that "are not subject to censorship."

Representatives of the Swedish government for the first time settled the repayment of debts with the help of bitcoin. This is the first time when law enforcement bodies officially accepted bitcoin as payment of arrears to the state.
One of the employees of Kronofogden (Swedish Bailiff Service) noted that bitcoin is a new asset that provides his organization more opportunities to resolve various issues and problems. Bitcoin is an alternative method of payment for citizens.

Today's growth of bitcoins above $ 5,000 again returned the world's first crypto currency to the dominance of capitalization in the crypto currency market, which in the course of 2017 was seriously shaken. In the summer months, due to the sharp increase in the popularity of ICO, the capitalization of the Ethereum and other major altokones has grown significantly, and the rate of their growth is much more than the growth of bitcoin. Therefore, in May, the Index of Bitcoin's dominance by the Coinmarketcap version fell below 50%, and in June briefly even fell below 40%.

Christine Lagarde - The Head of the International Monetary Fund

Managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, decided to warn the central banks about the increase in the distribution of Bitcoin. She recommended not leaving digital currencies without attention, as their popularity is constantly growing. Lagarde addressed this issue at a conference that took place last Friday in London. In particular, she said that digital currencies can make "good competition" traditional. Digital currencies are still young.